Thursday, October 14, 2010

Dr. Seuss Skirt!

On Monday's post I received a comment...


princessteach has left a new comment on your post "one fish... two fish... green fish... quilt?": 

Congratulations, so very cute. I just made my self a skirt out of all the fabrics. I teach first grade and my kids loved the skirt. If I am wearing the skirt, then we get to study a different Dr Seuss book that day. I am going to have to make this quilt. Thanks for the inspiration. 



That comment lead to a conversation...
and a photo...
and I asked Terri if I could share the story of her skirt with you..
and she said yes!


There are 54 (9 inch) squares, 4 tiers long. I bought $200 worth of Dr. Seuss material. I showed my love bugs, at school, the material before I made it (scraps). I told them whenever I wore my "Cat in the Hat" skirt, then we would do a different Dr. Seuss book with activities. I finished the skirt this weekend and wore it on Monday. When I walked out to get them, they started screaming and jumping up and down. It was so cute. So after we finished our regular work, I read the book and we have been doing activities for 2 days based on "Cat in the Hat". I have a small book for them to read and color today.

I bought 8 of the panels (ok maybe more), so I will have plenty for the blocks. I took one of the blocks and put it on a pillowcase and it fits on the back of a student's chair. So, whoever is "Star Helper" gets to sit in the chair for the day. I downloaded the three quilts from the internet, but they take so much material. Your quilt is perfect. I will go look for the magazine today or tomorrow. We are on year round school, so I will have the whole month of November off (when I am not in Hawaii, Vegas or Colorado, giggle) to make the quilt.

Sorry to ramble, too much coffee this morning.  Thanks for the inspiration.

Hugs-
Terri

Check out Terri's Blog to read more about her skirt & sewing adventures!

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Oh and these are the pattern's Terri mentioned above... Three free pattern's featuring Dr. Seuss fabrics.  They are available for download from Robert Kaufman's site. Keep in mind you can scale them down or make less blocks to make them smaller.


Let's Party

Bump Thump Panel Quilt Pattern

The Cat in the Hat Quilt Pattern

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

So inspirational!

Riel Nason said...

Very cool. What a great teacher she is! Her students are very fortunate!! I am thinking now that this just might be the perfect fabric to make an Xmas gift for my son's kindergarten teacher. That would be a good excuse to buy the fabric and then have some scraps left for myself ;-)

Leslie said...

what a fun thing for her and her students...she must be an awesome and obviously so creative teacher

Carly said...

How much do I love this...Wow! I am a children's librarian, and now I want this fabric!! I think our storytime and preschool kiddos would love it! Thank you!

IHaveANotion ~ Kelly Jackson said...

I don't have a kid cool job....but I'm telling you....I'm in love with the idea of that fabric and clothing. What joy would radiate....it reminds me of the folks who made a car that drives and it looks like a Radio Flyer wagon....way too much fun!

Smiles,
Kelly

AnneMarie said...

Wow! That is awesome! Giving handmade gifts to kids is the best because they get SO excited about things. Ahhh, to be a kid!

dolores said...

Ok...this is amazing...I was just thinking yesterday while cutting a bunch of Suess for an order that those egg shapes and stripes would be such a cute skirt for a teacher with a couple of the Cat in the Hat prints for pockets and you post her story!:) Too bad I'm too old for one...and don't look good in skirts!;)

Sammy said...

Simply lovely.

-Samya :-)